Balance Druid Netherlight Crucible Recommendations

This section of the Balance Druid Guide explains the best relic trait choices for the Netherlight Crucible, a new system of artifact weapon progression added in Patch 7.3 Legion. This guide is currently maintained by Cyous (Armory).

Netherlight Crucible Overview

The Netherlight Crucible is a new system added in Patch 7.3. The Crucible allows you further empower your Artifact Weapon, by specializing and increasing the power from your relics. With it, each relic receives a small talent tree that you can select new traits from, depending how many traits your weapon have. Do not worry, however, because with the changes to Artifact Knowledge, unlocking the full power of the Crucible won't take long. Learn everything about this new system in our Netherlight Crucible Guide. With the opening of 安托鲁斯，燃烧王座, it is now possible to obtain 大军之印, which increases the potency of your Tier 2 Crucible traits by 50%. It might be a really strong legendary if you are lucky with Netherlight Crucible rolls!

We want make the best possible combination for our relic. In most cases, you'll see less-than-optimal combinations. RNG is RNG, nothing you can do about... except try again. If you would like a little more help deciding which talents you should take, please use this tool: Relic Comparison and Netherlight Crucible Calculator --- Full credit to Dreamgrove Discord members: Iskalla, Nick, and Slippykins.

There's no point in "ranking" them because everything is situational. I am using whole numbers, so you can't really see the minor differences. With that said, we can favor specific traits. Overall, 暗影大师 is a very good Crucible trait. For our relic trait, 群星之镰, 坠星, 炽烈阳炎 and 黄昏之辉 are fantastic options.

You have a good chance to see a strong relic path (83.3% to see one of those 4 traits; 74.5% chance to get a good relic trait and to avoid 黑暗哀伤. Basically, you got a 75% chance for something good. Full BiS isn't something you should aim for. Realistically, better gameplay will net you more of a DPS boost compared to the difference between 暗影大师 and 黑暗哀伤.